Health Sector Reform in Honduras: Privatization as Institutional Bad Faith

Abstract

ABSTRACT I address the privatization of public health care services in Honduras by focusing on one family’s experiences using both private and public health services. I juxtapose their increasing use of private health care services, over public services, against sustained and consistent episodes of health sector reform culminating in protests against decrees that sought to further restructure the Ministry of Health during early 2019. By complementing the concept of “privatization by attrition” with “institutional bad faith,” I argue that the increased use of private health care may be understood as privatization by coercion.